
The Other Side Of Make-Believe (ltd red vinyl)
Interpol
- LP
- Label
- Matador
THE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS!
TRACKLIST
01. TONI
02. FABLES
03. INTO THE NIGHT
04. MR. CREDIT
05. SOMETHING CHANGED
06. RENEGADE HEARTS
07. PASSENGER
08. GREENWICH
09. GRAN HOTEL
10. BIG SHOT CITY
11. GO EASY (PALERMO)
The Other Side of Make-Believe
If fate didn’t quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol’s seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of 30 thousand odd Peruvian fans. Rather than be sent scrambling like so many other musicians on tour or promoting new music, when lockdown clamped in March 2020, Interpol quickly got into a productive mood.
Coming from a group whose early work was characterised by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpol’s pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit — doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a “counterbalancing” direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of going easy. “The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound,” he says. “Yeah, I could focus on how fucked everything is, but I feel now is the time when being hopeful is necessary, and a still-believable emotion within what makes Interpol Interpol.